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Portland project forages for urban edibles so they don t go to waste
With clouds accumulating overhead, eight people gathered under the spreading branches of a
persimmon tree in the side yard of a North Portland home.
Ladders were set up, picking poles...
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Portland project forages for urban edibles so they don t go to waste
With clouds accumulating overhead, eight people gathered under the spreading branches of a
persimmon tree in the side yard of a North Portland home.
Ladders were set up, picking poles handed out, and a harvest began.
Blue milk crates and canvas
sacks began to fill.
"Watch out for falling fruit!" warned Sarah Hill, a volunteer with the Portland Fruit Tree Project,
as stray, baseball-size orbs thumped onto the grass.
For many Portlanders, and increasingly others across the nation, such group picking parties are a way
to incorporate the bounty of our urban area into their diets.
The idea behind this type of food
gathering -- sometimes called urban foraging -- is to use food that s all around us but often
overlooked.
It s fresh, healthy and would otherwise go to waste.
Some do it for a cheap food source, others because of the environmental ethic behind a locally
sourced diet.
Either way, it s sustainable on seve
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